Martin Buber

Quote: Leisure is the exultation of the possible. [Martin Buber]

Quote: We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. [Martin Buber]

Quote: When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. [Martin Buber]

Quote: The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit. [Martin Buber]

Quote: The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. [Martin Buber]

Quote: A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for. [Martin Buber]

Quote: All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. [Martin Buber]

Quote: An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. [Martin Buber]

Quote: For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it. [Martin Buber]

Quote: God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. [Martin Buber]

Quote: I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me. [Martin Buber]

Quote: Play is the exultation of the possible. [Martin Buber]

Quote: Solitude is the place of purification. [Martin Buber]

Quote: The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes. [Martin Buber]

Quote: There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say. [Martin Buber]

Quote: Through the Thou a person becomes I. [Martin Buber]

Quote: To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin. [Martin Buber]

Quote: Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. [Martin Buber]

Quote: The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me. [Martin Buber]

Quote: Leisure is the exultation of the possible. [Martin Buber]

Quote: The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. [Martin Buber]

Quote: Solitude is the place of purification. [Martin Buber]

Quote: There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say. [Martin Buber]

Quote: All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. [Martin Buber]

Quote: A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for. [Martin Buber]

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